MUMBAI: Unilever PLC has announced that Michael Treschow will replace Antony Burgmans as chairman of Unilever NV and Unilever PLC at the the Annual General Meeting in May 2007.
Treschow will be the first person from outside Unilever to hold the office of chairman and, following the restructuring of the Boards in recent years, will be the first independent, non-executive Chairman of the company.

Currenlty, Treschow is the chairman of both Ericsson and Electrolux.

However, he has recently announced that he will stand down as chairman of Electrolux in April. He also holds the post of a non-executive director of ABB Group.

In line with this, Antony Burgmans will retire from Unilever at the 2007 AGMs concluding 35 years of service.